Experience Zou từ Ambléon, France

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11/05/2024

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2019-03-08 00:30

Câu Chuyện Bên Nồi Lẩu Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kiệm

Tortilla Curtain gives a human face to an issue that all too often is cast in its extremes. Talk show hosts rail against 'illegals' taking over our country and our jobs; the other side demonizes the government and equates their handling of Mexicans the way that Hitler handled the Jews. In the end, both sides make us want to plug our ears. Illegal immigration, what should be done, how we should think about, is far more complex and nuanced than that. So it refreshing to see T.C. Boyle tries to capture the humanity of the migrant workers we all too readily cast out of our conscious as below us. Some will argue that his treatment of America, the ironically named wife, of is overly sympathetic, and at times bordering on bathos. Yes, Boyle may cross the line a few times, but as a novelist drawing on the dramatic, he has some license to thrust the couple into unlikely situations, and to make them. I did have a little problem with the way he drew the two white characters (who like the Mexican couple, Boyle allows the reader to inhabit their psyche.) As the cliche odious yuppies they weren't that believable. The wife esp., an alpha-alpha female bent on beating the crap out of anything that got in her way, seemed only a prop for Boyle with which to contrast the noble suffering of the abject, soul-shattered Mexican couple. Read: bad shallow whites vs. simple, yet virtuous immigrants. Still, those minor quibbles aside, I would recommend this book, esp. for reading groups or college (maybe even mature high school)lit classes. The writing is exquisite, truly the work of a master (Boyle is able to take an accident scene and infuse it with so much tension and momentum that his way with words, phrases, and paragraphs is nearly.) Ultimately, I would like to see Tortilla Curtain as part of the sociology/ethnic literature canon as I have come across few works that capture the ethnic tinderbox that our country so complacently and precariously rests on.

Người đọc Experience Zou từ Ambléon, France

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.